- 2007 Tour of Missouri
The 2007
Tour of Missouri is the inagurual edition of a professionalroad bicycle racing stage race held inMissouri that made its debut on September 11, 2007 with six days of racing. Run by same organizers as theTour de Georgia and theAmgen Tour of California , the Tour of Missouri is being billed as the third highest profile domestic race in the United States. The Tour is part of the2006-2007 UCI America Tour and the inaugural2007 USA Cycling Professional Tour .The Missouri terrain is not mountainous by California and Georgia standards but expect three of the six stages to be contested on relentless rolling hills. No title sponsor has been announced. The planned course:
* Day 1: Kansas City, road race, out-and-back course starting and ending in the Plaza
* Day 2: Clinton-Springfield, road race
* Day 3: Branson, individual time trial
* Day 4: Lebanon-Columbia, road race
* Day 5: Jefferson City-St. Charles, road race
* Day 6:St. Louis , circuit raceAward Jerseys
tage 2: 2007-09-12: Clinton-Springfield road race, 125 miles (201.2 km)
=Stage 3: 2007-09-13: Bransonindividual time trial , 18 miles (29 km)=tage 4: 2007-09-14: Lebanon-Columbia road race, 133.4 miles (214.7 km):
tage 5: 2007-09-16:
Jefferson City -St. Charles , road race, 123 miles (km (198 km)tage 6: 2007-09-17:
St. Louis circuit race, 74 miles (119.1 km)Teams
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Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team (DSC)
*Saunier Duval-Prodir (SDV)
*DFL-Cyclingnews-Litespeed (DFL)
*Team Sparkasse (TSP)
*Health Net Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis (HNM)
*Navigators Insurance Cycling Team (NIC)
* Team Slipstream Powered By Chipotle (TSL)
*Symmetrics Cycling Team (SYM)
*Tecos de la Universidad de Guadalajara (TUA)
*Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team
*BMC Racing Team (BMC)
*Jelly Belly Cycling Team (JBC)
*KodakGallery.com - Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. (OSN)
*Colavita / Sutter Home Presented by Cooking Light (COL)
*USA Cycling National Development Team (USA)External links
* [http://www.tourofmissouri.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.steephill.tv/2007/tour-of-missouri/ Tour of Missouri press release, route map and stage details] with links to results and photos at event time by [http://www.steephill.tv/ steephill.tv]
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